Monday, April 13, 2015
Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection
"Ever since Cicero's De Natura Deorum ii.34., humans have been intrigued by the origin and mechanisms underlying complexity in nature. Darwin suggested that adaptation and complexity could evolve by natural selection acting successively on numerous small, heritable modifications. But is this enough? Here, we describe selected studies of experimental evolution with robots to illustrate how the process of natural selection can lead to the evolution of complex traits such as adaptive behaviours." Full paper @ PLOS Biology
Labels: #evolution, #evolutionaryRobotics, #Robotics
